MOGADISHU (Halbeeg News) – National Economic Advisors (NEA) has called on Somali leaders to resolve their difference and allow the country to hold elections.
In a statement, NEA warned that continued gridlock risks wiping out all economic gains and further destabilising the country.
“The current political crisis engulfing Somalia does not only affect the functions of the NEC,
but it could also represent the most severe threat to the integrity of our nation in a generation,” the statement read in part. “The limited socio-economic progress that has been attained painfully and slowly in the past few years will be reversed.”
The group emphasized the lack of agreement between Somali federal government and its members could plunged the country in crisis that worsen the situation.
“The NEA are concerned that continued political instability will simply replace the previous dysfunctional unitary system with a completely nonfunctional federal one.”
The NEA comprises of four Somalis and four international economic experts was formed by the Federal Government in 2018 to advise on economic matters.
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